The arts & crafts movement in Europe & America : design for the modern world / [edited by] Wendy Kaplan ; with contributions by Alan Crawford ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Wendy, editor.

Contributor:

Crawford, Alan, 1943-

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, publisher, originator.

Delaware Art Museum.

Cleveland Museum of Art.

Thames and Hudson, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and crafts movement--Exhibitions.

Arts and crafts movement.

Decorative arts--History.

Decorative arts.

History.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

327 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Arts and crafts movement in Europe and America

Place of Publication:

New York : Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Summary:

"At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today: the conflict between standardization and individuality, the question of whether a one-of-a-kind handcrafted object is superior to a mass-produced one, and the problem of defining what kind of design most benefits society." "With more than 300 objects - furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and works on paper - from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, France, and the United States, this is a visually stunning, definitive survey. The book features masterworks by the best-known designers of the period, such as William Morris, M.H. Baillie Scott, Henry Van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Eliel Saarinen, Gustav Stickley, Greene and Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as lesser-known examples that have never been displayed together before."--Jacket.

Contents:

Design for the modern world / Wendy Kaplan

United Kingdom : origins and first flowering / Alan Crawford

Germany : a new culture of things / Rüdiger Joppien

Austria : idealism or realism / Christian Witt-Dörring

Hungary : shaping a national consciousness / Juliet Kinchin

Scandinavia : "beauty for all" / Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark

Belgium and France : arts, crafts, and decorative arts / Amy F. Ogata

America : the quest for democratic design / Wendy Kaplan.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibitions held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 19, 2004-Apr. 3, 2005; Delaware Art Museum, June 17-Sept. 11, 2005; Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 16, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck copy has dust jacket. Also a bookmark from the Museum.

ISBN:

0500238154

OCLC:

57368595